Because You are a Man by Michael Coroza translated by J.A. Del Prado I. Because you are a man, Son, Learn how to cry. It hurts when tears wash your mind Or the new wound of your last stumble But tears are clean and Can remove microbes In the mind, the heart and the whole being. Because you are a man, Learn to regret. Confession may shake your pride But no one can dominate reason. Let them judge and persecute you, Because you will find the right ingredient To realize your being. II You have inherited, Son, The ten thousand privileges That satiated Those who built the tower of Babel, The pyramids, coliseums, Ziggurats, temples, And empires. Yours is the glory They grasped In the muscular Pages of history. But, Son, their brutal Logic and names That violated, assaulted, Detained your mother And all mothers and women in the world flow in your nature. Cry out, Son, Their past. Regret, Son, Their mis
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